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Polity Middle East

Parthia

Attested 200 BCE – 100 BCE

Historical region located in northeastern Iran

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Parthia appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

200 BCE 2 snapshots 100 BCE
200 BCE100 BCE

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2560 BCE – still standing

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Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

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Egyptian Red Sea Trade

2500 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Maccabean Revolt

167 BCE – 160 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 100 BCE.

200 BCE Palmyra 200 BCE Jerash 167 BCE Maccabean Revolt 150 BCE Qumran 120 BCE Ctesiphon 100 BCE Hegra (Mada'in Salih)

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Chavín de Huántar Landmark · Americas 900 BCE – 200 BCE Carthaginian Empire Polity · Europe 801 BCE – 145 BCE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Cimbrian War Conflict · Europe 113 BCE – 101 BCE Yose ben Yoezer Figure · Judea 200 BCE – 161 BCE Ai-Khanoum Landmark · South Asia 300 BCE – 145 BCE
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